Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Today’s Reading: John 15:26-16:4
Daily Lectionary: Numbers 14:1-25; Luke 18:18-34
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. (John 16:3)
In the Name of Jesus. Amen. One of the hardest things to understand is how Christians, or those who call themselves Christians, can act contrary to God’s Word and still think they are doing the right thing, or serving God while doing it. Jesus speaks specifically about the religious authorities who plan to kill him by crucifixion and then shift their wrath to the newly sent apostles who proclaim Him as the salvation of the world. Their great sin is unbelief, Jesus says. They do not know the Father.
In spite of all their work with Holy Scripture, these religious authorities still cannot (or will not) see the Father working through His Son to wash away the sin of the world in Jesus’s death and resurrection. So they will turn to violence and shunning and shaming and rejection of those who carry the message of life everlasting. But not all is doom and gloom. The Helper is on the way, too. The Holy Spirit comes to guide and keep the sent ones, to bear witness, and to help them bear witness, to the saving work of Jesus for the world.
No matter how bad the persecution of the faithful has gotten over the centuries, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, has always borne up His messengers, His witnesses, so that they would be able to proclaim salvation to the world. You can look through history for examples, or just look at the news today, for examples of those who do not know the Father rejecting His message of salvation with violence. The constant throughout it all is that the Holy Spirit continues to be faithful so that the Word of God may be proclaimed and accomplish the purpose for which it was sent.
You have heard the Gospel proclaimed because the Helper guided that proclamation down the rivers of time, from Jesus’s lips and to your ears through your pastor, so that you would be comforted by the work of Jesus for you. Thanks be to God for the faithful sent ones who, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, deliver Jesus for you! In the Name of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Duane Bamsch
O King of glory, Lord of hosts, uplifted in triumph far above all heavens, leave us not without consolation but send us the Spirit of truth whom You promised from the Father; for You live and reign with Him and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Collect for the Seventh Sunday of Easter)
View all episodes
By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: John 15:26-16:4
Daily Lectionary: Numbers 14:1-25; Luke 18:18-34
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. (John 16:3)
In the Name of Jesus. Amen. One of the hardest things to understand is how Christians, or those who call themselves Christians, can act contrary to God’s Word and still think they are doing the right thing, or serving God while doing it. Jesus speaks specifically about the religious authorities who plan to kill him by crucifixion and then shift their wrath to the newly sent apostles who proclaim Him as the salvation of the world. Their great sin is unbelief, Jesus says. They do not know the Father.
In spite of all their work with Holy Scripture, these religious authorities still cannot (or will not) see the Father working through His Son to wash away the sin of the world in Jesus’s death and resurrection. So they will turn to violence and shunning and shaming and rejection of those who carry the message of life everlasting. But not all is doom and gloom. The Helper is on the way, too. The Holy Spirit comes to guide and keep the sent ones, to bear witness, and to help them bear witness, to the saving work of Jesus for the world.
No matter how bad the persecution of the faithful has gotten over the centuries, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, has always borne up His messengers, His witnesses, so that they would be able to proclaim salvation to the world. You can look through history for examples, or just look at the news today, for examples of those who do not know the Father rejecting His message of salvation with violence. The constant throughout it all is that the Holy Spirit continues to be faithful so that the Word of God may be proclaimed and accomplish the purpose for which it was sent.
You have heard the Gospel proclaimed because the Helper guided that proclamation down the rivers of time, from Jesus’s lips and to your ears through your pastor, so that you would be comforted by the work of Jesus for you. Thanks be to God for the faithful sent ones who, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, deliver Jesus for you! In the Name of Jesus. Amen. –Rev. Duane Bamsch
O King of glory, Lord of hosts, uplifted in triumph far above all heavens, leave us not without consolation but send us the Spirit of truth whom You promised from the Father; for You live and reign with Him and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Collect for the Seventh Sunday of Easter)